Good morning gentlemen.

Welcome, to the newcomer. What's your name?

Spent a quiet Labor Day, watching the Mariners beat the Rangers. Maybe the rebuild is ahead of schedule. Hope springs eternal.

Rita baked a fantastic pear pie with fruit from our DS's century-old tree. Good news is we drove most of the pie over to DS' house. Bad news (sort of) is she made enough dough for a second pie, to bake today. She'll eat one piece and leave the rest for me. Too good.

High and dry east winds really blew up the fire situation in the Pacific Northwest, yesterday. We had been enjoying a really good fire season, up until then. Last night a fire about 30 miles from here destroyed a dozen homes and forced evacuations of several hundred. Air is pretty thick, this morning. Sadly, no rain in the forecast, though the winds should ease by the end of the week.

Good afternoon. Went out after breakfast for a hike in the forest 2 towns away while it was still cool. Heading into 80's now, but a dry heat. The brooks there were practically empty of water, with a trickle down a path of wet stones and moss. We need rain to replenish our reservoirs, though not as bad as folks on west coast need it to douse their fires.

Kinda fell off the diet wagon yesterday, though not too bad. Back on today.

Welcome aboard to the new guy! We check in every day and share our weight loss ups and downs, our challenges and sometimes discuss health issues, especially those that impact weight and fitness. Looking forward to having you join in if you like.